Daido Moriyama
Tokyo
2007
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Daido Moriyama
Tokyo
2007
Physical Qualities
Chromogenic print, digital exposure, Sheet (mounted): 1100 × 1467 mm. (43 5/16 × 57 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Brenda Edelson, Santa Fe
Object Number
2020.42
Moriyama, best known for his black-and-white photographs of Tokyo streets, expanded his work in 2008 to include digital color photography. This intensely colored image was one of several he chose to print in a large size. The focus is fully on the flower, to
the exclusion of the background. The organic cycle that the flower evokes—of bud, bloom, and decay—reveals the artist’s pressured sense of the passage of time.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2020; Brenda Edelson, Santa Fe, purchased 2015; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography," November 4, 2018-March 24, 2019.
